Lighthouse is an ephemeral file-receiving station. Spin it up, share your address, receive files, shut it down. No cloud. No accounts. No permanence.
$lighthouse up
Starting Tor hidden service...
Your address: xk3f8mzq7wvncpae.onion
Ready. Waiting for files.
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WHY LIGHTHOUSE
Designed to disappear the moment you're done.
Your router stays untouched. Tor handles the routing invisibly — no firewall rules needed.
Files land on your machine via MinIO. Third-party services never see your data.
No sign-ups, no email, no OAuth. You run it; it works.
Your disk, your rules. Transfer anything — limited only by local storage.
TRANSPORT MODES
Two ways to make Lighthouse reachable. Same tool, different trade-offs.
lighthouse up lighthouse up --tunnel INSTALLATION
No Docker required. All components run natively.
LighthouseSetup.exe
Adds lighthouse to PATH automatically
CLI REFERENCE
lighthouse up Start in Tor mode (default).
lighthouse up --tunnel Start with Cloudflare Tunnel.
lighthouse url Print your .onion address.
lighthouse files List received files.
lighthouse download 0 Download file #0 to ~/Downloads.
lighthouse down Shut everything down cleanly.
Download flags
--here Save to current directory --remove Delete from bucket after downloading STACK
SUPPORT
If Lighthouse saves you headaches, consider supporting its development.